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Lim-Prasad wins SEA Games bronze in 400m hurdles

NAYPYIDAW – Dipna Lim-Prasad has set two historic milestones for Singapore sport with her bronze-medal win in the South-east Asian Games’ women’s 400m hurdles final this afternoon (Dec 17).

Lim-Prasad will try to clock 59s at the SEA Games. TODAY file photo

Lim-Prasad will try to clock 59s at the SEA Games. TODAY file photo

NAYPYIDAW – Dipna Lim-Prasad has set two historic milestones for Singapore sport with her bronze-medal win in the South-east Asian Games’ women’s 400m hurdles final this afternoon (Dec 17).

The 22-year-old Nanyang Technological University student finished third in a new national record of 59.96sec, breaking her previous mark of 60.36sec which she had set in October.

Her time also marks the first time that a Singapore female hurdler has clocked a sub-60sec time in the discipline.

It is also the first SEA Games medal won by a Singapore female sprinter in 34 years. The last person to do so was Heather Siddons-Merican who bagged a bronze in the 100m hurdles at the 1979 SEA Games.

Lim-Prasad was not the only Singapore sprinter to win a medal today.

Muhammad Amirudin Jamal, who anchored the 4x100m relay team to a silver yesterday, clocked 10.55sec in the men’s century sprint en route to winning a bronze. He finished behind Thailand’s Jirapong Meenapra (10.48) and Indonesia’s Iswandi Iswandi. Singapore’s Gary Yeo was fifth in 1070sec.

Meanwhile, talented teen sprinter Shanti Pereira finished fourth in the women’s 100m final.

The 17-year-old Republic Polytechnic student clocked 11.99sec, which is 0.1sec off her national record of 11.89. However, it is the fourth time this year that the young sprinter has clocked a sub-12 timing. No other Singapore female sprinter has yet to go under 12sec in the event.

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